FPP1P First person plural pronouns

MFTE PP1P child of FPP

Definition

We, us, our, ourselves, ours.

Parent

FPP

Detection Rules

mfte

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\$"]
Word list (5 items)
we us our ourselves ours

Requires: word, pos

pybiber

cql[word={words} & pos="PRP|PRP\\$"]
Word list (4 items)
we us our ourselves

Requires: word, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

We were told to deal with it ourselves.

Source: le_foll_2024

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

Part of Biber’s combined 1st person category.

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